Windows Installer Sdk Orca Download
Bethany Pensis
But I can't find orca.msi or orca.exe anywhere on my machine. Is this tool no longer packaged with the Windows SDKs? Do I need to install one of the older Windows SDKs as well? Is there an optional Visual Studio 2015 component that I can install to get Orca?
An MSDN page for orca.exe eventually leads me to a download page for Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Is this the most recent SDK which includes orca.msi, or can it be found in newer SDKs such as the Win7/.NET4.0 or Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 SDKs?
It turns out that the Windows 10 SDK can install orca (though the file is now named orca-x86_en-us.msi) but it is not installed by default when you install the SDK via the Visual Studio installer. It is an optional component of the SDK, and the Visual Studio 2015 installer does not offer any control over which SDK components are installed. You have to separately run the SDK installer to install the component which contains Orca.
After the wizard completes, the Orca installer can now be found in the SDK's install path. On my machine, that's located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86\Orca-x86_en-us.msi. Running that MSI package installs the latest version of Orca itself.
This tool is only available in the Windows SDK Components for Windows Installer Developers. It is provided as an msi installation file in a sub directory of bin under the installed Windows Kits. The installer name may be localized, such as Orca-x86_en-us.msi. After installing the Windows SDK Components for Windows Installer Developers, double click the msi file to install Orca.exe.
Not sure what orca is but from the looks of it all you're trying to do is add the executable to your PATH environment variable. Basically what that does is just adds the full location to your program so you don't have to specify the full location when running commands.
To set the path from CMD I think you need to use setset PATH=%PATH%;C:\Users\my_pc\AppData\Local\Programs\orca\It basically means set the path variable to whatever it currently is plus this new thing. Which is what you would want, you almost definitely don't want to override the full path.
Step 7. Navigate to Transform > Apply Transform, browse to the location of the transform file in the file system. Select the transform file and then click on Open, as shown in the image. To create a custom installer, a transform file is needed. Transform files contain installation properties which are applied to the installer.
There is no need to mess with the msi. Just create a installer script that uninstalls the application if it is installed and immediatelly reinstalls it. Additionally create a new detection rule for the install date property in the uninstall registry key with a value of >= current datetime.
Windows Installer (msiexec.exe, previously known as Microsoft Installer,[3] codename Darwin)[4][5] is a software component and application programming interface (API) of Microsoft Windows used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software. The installation information, and optionally the files themselves, are packaged in installation packages, loosely relational databases structured as COM Structured Storages and commonly known as "MSI files", from their default filename extensions. The packages with the file extensions mst contain Windows Installer "Transformation Scripts", those with the msm extensions contain "Merge Modules" and the file extension pcp is used for "Patch Creation Properties".[6] Windows Installer contains significant changes from its predecessor, Setup API. New features include a GUI framework and automatic generation of the uninstallation sequence. Windows Installer is positioned as an alternative to stand-alone executable installer frameworks such as older versions of InstallShield and NSIS.
Before the introduction of Microsoft Store (then named Windows Store), Microsoft encouraged third parties to use Windows Installer as the basis for installation frameworks, so that they synchronize correctly with other installers and keep the internal database of installed products consistent. Important features such as rollback and versioning depend on a consistent internal database for reliable operation. Furthermore, Windows Installer facilitates the principle of least privilege by performing software installations by proxy for unprivileged users.
A feature is a hierarchical group of components. A feature may contain any number of components and other sub-features. Smaller packages can consist of a single feature. More complex installers may display a "custom setup" dialog box, from which the user can select which features to install or remove.
A component is the basic unit of a product. Each component is treated by Windows Installer as a unit. The installer cannot install just part of a component.[7] Components can contain program files, folders, COM components, registry keys, and shortcuts. The user does not directly interact with components.
Creating an installer package for a new application is not trivial. It is necessary to specify which files must be installed, to where and with what registry keys. Any non-standard operations can be done using Custom Actions, which are typically developed in DLLs. There are a number of commercial and freeware products to assist in creating MSI packages, including Visual Studio (natively up to VS 2010,[8] with an extension on newer VS versions[9]), InstallShield and WiX. To varying degrees, the user interface and behavior may be configured for use in less common situations such as unattended installation. Once prepared, an installer package is "compiled" by reading the instructions and files from the developer's local machine, and creating the .msi file.
The user interface (dialog boxes) presented at the start of installation can be changed or configured by the setup engineer developing a new installer. There is a limited language of buttons, text fields and labels which can be arranged in a sequence of dialogue boxes. An installer package should be capable of running without any UI, for what is called "unattended installation".
To deploy the Insight Agent as an assigned app, the MSI file, needs to be edited to pass the required parameters for the agent to fetch the configuration files that pair the agent to your organization.We recommend using Orca ( -us/windows/win32/msi/orca-exe) to edit the MSI file.
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Token Based InstallerWhen used with the token-based installer, CUSTOMCONFIGPATH tells the .msi file where to save the configuration files after it downloads them from the Insight Platform. The installer will then pull the files from this location during the installation process. After the installation completes, the directory specified in CUSTOMCONFIGPATH is no longer required.
For windows installer (msi) questions you will probably get more help in the Windows Installer newsgroup
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The solution implies applying an MSI wrapper over Windows Downloader, the standard lite installer for BEST. This section provides the guidelines for downloading the installer and a few methods on how to deploy the BEST using the MSI package.
This method is suitable for command-line deployment tools that accept instructions with parameters. The method uses the msiexec command, having the MSI wrapper and the installer ID as parameters. The MSI wrapper is digitally signed by Bitdefender.
After you create the installation package, a new file is going to be available in the output folder. It will have the same name as the BEST Windows installer, but with .intunewin added as an extension. This will be the package that is going to be uploaded to Intune and used for deployment in the next section.
I cannot figure out how to install 20.10 with Orca. After I have booted the USB stick, I press the alt-windows-s combination and Orca starts as expected; but I cannot navigate the installation window. Orca reports the window name as "Installer frame" or something similar, but I hear nothing when using the tab and arrow keys to try and find the usual installation options and buttons.
Thanks for your post. I doubt this is the same issue as I can hear the screen reader start with the usual "screen reader on" announcement. It also speaks "installer frame window" when I press alt-tab.
Hi all, so i am verry new to linux. I am first trying it out with a virtual machine, using virtual box as the virtualization software. I pressed super+alt+s to turn on the screen reader, and it turns on. but when i navigate in the installer window, it does not speak at all. is there a work around for this, or should i download another ubuntu version to try out? I am using ubuntu mate 20.04.
I also read some where I should enter the terminal and type "orca --replace" but that just restarts the screen reader, but the issue still remains the same.
I am quite sorry to hear that the accessibility support in the installer isn't working out. We are well aware that an issue exists, and we're getting closer to the culprit (I think), but we still haven't found the problem (much less rectified it).
Firefox Enterprise offers MSI installers per locale, per cpu architecture (32 and 64 bit) and per channel to help system administrators customize and deploy Firefox in their environments.The MSI installer (supported on Windows 7 and later versions) is a wrapper of the exe full installer that allows customizations through the use of a MST file prior to deploying through standard Windows deployment tools such as Active Directory or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager.
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